Dave Hartl: Music

• MP3 short clip, hi-fi play (broadband)
• MP3 short clip, lo-fi play (modem)

Dave Hartl: Chapman Stick, MIDI guitar, synths:
Arturia Minimoog V (lead)
Arturia Moog Modular V (opening burble)
Korg Legacy Cell (lead)
Native Instruments FM7 (electric pianos, growl on bridge, bat sounds)
Propellerheads Reason (Rhodes on solos)
Spectrasonics Stylus RMX (drums)
Steinberg Plex (comps on heads)
Waldorf PPG Wave 2.V (comps on heads)
Waldorf Microwave Xt (MIDI Guitar on heads)
Raw Deal: sample on bridge (from CD Encoded; www.rawdeal.com for more details)

This tune arrived to me as I was lying in bed, getting short snippets of sleep but getting awakened every couple minutes. Every time I woke up I had another few measures playing in my head. Finally, I went downstairs and wrote the head down and then slept soundly. The next morning I found the chart on the piano and couldn’t remember writing it, so this was really like getting a gift. On the top of the scrawled chart was “Batboy”, so I guess that’s the title. I wrote the 2nd head’s reharmonization later. This was recorded by Raw Deal for their second CD, so I took the long-chord section and used it as a background sample in this version. I did a lot of sound design for the original recording, but didn’t use it; here I include the Bat Effects as originally heard.